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Thursday, June 18, 2009 12:00 AM

The Illegal Spying Game, played over and over

Each new revelation of surveillance crimes prompts the same deceitful reaction from the political class.
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Thursday, June 18, 2009 02:01 PM

    When, not if

    The detainee photo bill is signed into law, the ACLU will fight it...

    Strictly speaking, however, classification alone is not sufficient to exempt any such record from the FOIA. It must also be “properly classified,” and that is a determination that is to be made by a court of law.

    Steven Aftergood - Secrecy News
    http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2009/06/congressional_action.html

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